Exercise 4:

UNUSUAL SPORTS
If you have had enough of the ___(1)___ sports people play, you can try a number of strange new sports. Some of these were created when people mixed two well-known sports. Sometimes they added a ___(2)___ from the part of the world where they live.
♦ Bossaball is an example of this. It takes volleyball and football, adds a trampoline and some Brazilian ___(3)___ arts.
♦ Buzkashi, a sport from Afghanistan, is played on horses and uses a dead goat ___(4)___ a ball! The Afghan Buzkashi Federation wants the game to spread throughout the world and has finally ___(5)___ the rules because they hope to get Olympic status for the sport.
♦ Chess boxing is a sport where you need to change rapidly from one type of activity to ___(6)___. You need to be clever and also fit. It is becoming more and more popular and now holds world championships.
(Adapted form Mindset for IELTS)